Safety-garment.



H. P. ANDREWS.

SAFETY GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED rca.4, 1915.

1,168,698, Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

HERBERT P. ANDREWS, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SAFETY-GARMENT.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, rare.

Application filed February 4, 1915. Serial No. 6,158.

- Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to safety garments, .and more particularly to safetygarments for shop and factory men who are exposed to the dangers ofrevolving shafts, pulleys and other m'oving machinery, which sofrequently catches the clothing of thesemen and seriously, if notpermanently injures them and often kills them outright.

In connection .with my experience as a superintendent of a large shopwhere many men are working around and about many revolving shafts,pulleys and other parts, and having, seen many serious accidents of thiskind, I have conceived the idea of making a workmans coat orjacket, orany other garment which may be worn by him, in sections, with thevarious sections detachably connected together andin such a Way thatshould any part be caught by the machinery,

that particular section of the garment would be instantly pulled outfrom the rest of the garment without injury to the wearer.

In order to fully illustrate my invention, I have shown in theaccompanying sheet of drawings, front and back views of a coat or jacketembodying my invention, which I will now describe.

Figure 1 is a front view of a coat or jacket, made of a plurality ofdetachable sections; Fig. 2 is a back view thereof; and Fig. 3 is afragmentary view showing one form of attaching means for securing thevarious garment sections together. I

In the embodiment of the invention here shown for illustrative purposes,I have shown a workmans coat or jacket composed of two front sections, 1and 2, and'two back sections 3 and I, with the two sleeves, each of twosections, 5 and 6, said sleeves being also dctachably connected at theirupper ends to the body of the jacket. The sleeves and the various parts.or sections of the garment are connected together by meansof thetwo-part press buttons, as 7 These press buttons or fasteners arefrequently secured to strips of tape, as 8, and it is a very easy thingto sew these strips of tape to the meeting faces of the overlappingedges of the garment, so that the meeting edges can be thus detachablysecured together, in away which is clearly understood, and asillustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

I do not limit myself to any particular method of detachably connectingthe various garment sections, or to the number or shape of saidsections, realizing that many changes can be made therein withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

What Iclaim and desire to secure by Let; ters Patent is, I

1. A garment of the character described, comprising in combination, aplurality of separate garment sections, ,the edge of each section to bejoined to a corresponding section provided with one part ofthe usual.

snap or glove fastener to be engaged with the other part thereof on theedge of its adjoining section, whereby on a pull on one section, thefastening devices may be readily separated and a section wholly removedfrom the garment without tearing said garment.

2. A garment of the character referred to, comprising in combination, aplurality of separate garment sections, and means yieldably joining themeeting edges of said sections together, said means being especiallydesigned to yield under direct unusual pull on one of said garmentsections, whereby said garment section can be wholly detached from thegarment without tearing the garment sections.

3. A garment of the character referred to comprising a plurality ofseparate garment sections yieldably secured together along the meetingedges of said sections, and means joining the meeting edges of saidgarment sections together and adapted to yield under direct pull on onesection in the line of its plane, whereby a garment section can bewholly removed from the garment by a pull thereon without tearing thegarment proper.

4. A workmans garment of the character referred to, comprising incombination, a

plurality of separate garment sections, the

meeting edgesof said sections being provided, respectively, with theparts of twopart, yieldable fasteners, adapted to yield under pull,whereby a section of said getment can be wholly removed by pull thereonOregon, this 28th day of January, 1915.

HERBERT P. ANDREVS. In presence of Y I J. C. SIMMONS, D. H. LITZENBERG.

without tearing the garment.

Signed at Portland, Multnomah county, 7

